The Other Emma

In 1880, Rose Litkin, a nine-year-old orphan from the tenements of the Lower East Side, is adopted by Lucien Boyesten, a widowed banker seeking a companion for his spoiled ten-year-old daughter, Emma. Rose is whisked away to Boston-to a sister who resents and torments her-and struggles to find her place in a family where secrets abound. Eight years later, impoverished and fleeing the disgrace of Lucien's fraudulent business practices and tragic death, Rose and Emma board a train bound for N...